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Is look to our north, canada, where they have a very functional guest worker program, and if we initiated that, allowed people to be here legally, work, be registered, pay taxes, go back home, and to continue along the pathway of citizenship, if thats what they wanted to do, just like anybody else, why do we have to make it into a big political issue. >> and yet it is. >> we had immigration, the evolution of the conservative movement on the issue of immigration is nothing less than astonishing. ...

Legal documentation. >> as amnesty goes through, america becomes california and no republican will ever win another national election. >> is that a good message for republicans to have out there at this point? >> well, i dont know that its a good message for anybody, because you know, we have people here. theyre an important part of our economy, and all we have to do is look to our north, canada, where they have a very functional guest worker program, and if we initiated that, allowed people to ...

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I want to talk first about what i understand your position on undocumented workers to be as washington sets forth on trying to come up with some kind of immigration reform. you dont want any kind of plan that would encourage further entry by undocumented workers, is that correct? >> thats exactly right. the incentives that exist today are for people to come illegally because theres no path for them to come legally. we dont have a guest worker program. we have lines that are so long and in fact, ...

Joining me now former florida governor jeb bush. governor, its good to see you. i want to talk first about what i understand your position on undocumented workers to be as washington sets forth on trying to come up with some kind of immigration reform. you dont want any kind of plan that would encourage further entry by undocumented workers, is that correct? >> thats exactly right. the incentives that exist today are for people to come illegally because theres no path for them to come legally. w...

Third and fourth order things we ended up not doing so now we have a situation where it could be 12 million. when you look at the economic situation in the united states, are we going to be capable of having another six or seven million people more dependent on the federal government and social welfare type policies and programs and i dont think we can do that what i would suggest is a multiphased operation, you know, three or four phases, have different type of tasks, and then have measures oar...

>> gretchen: you have been talk being it for a long time f florida where immigration has been in focus for some time. what is the main message of your book now? what are you going to do to solve the problem? >> the book has two underlying premises. we are a nation immigrants. we have an immigrant heritage that helps our country grow and prosper. but were also a country where the rule of law prevails. and that dynamic tension is where we try to look at how you create comprehensive reform as it re...

Do you like that idea? what do you do with the 11 or 12 million who are already here? >> we do like a guest worker program. a lot of our agricultural jobs are moving to other countries. alabama suffered billions of dollars in losses when they got rid of a bunch of their immigrants. we think there ought to be a predictable flow, that it ought to be market driven rather than government. we also support dramatic increases in the number of high skilled visas that we give. only 13% of our immigrants ...

But i think were on the path toward something very positive. that combination of border security, matched to a guest worker program and, very importantly so we dont have people living in the shadows forever, a path to citizenship. those three elements which president bush supported, senator kennedy supported. were back to i think a framework where thats the right course. >> when you find your housing plan on the bipartisan policy centers website. correct? >> correct. >> thank you both for coming...

Hear so much about. we need agriculture labor, we need low-skill labor. and so if we want to see our economy grow we not only have to be more productive we have to have a larger work force. and our work force is not growing fast enough for us to have the kind of growth that we have you got. hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs in america that are sitting here empty today, because there is nobody to do the jobs. some of those highly skilled, some of them not. >> governor rendell -- >> th...